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The £30,000 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction has longlisted
three former winners of the prize, Eimear McBride, Rose Tremain and
Linda Grant, for 2017's award.
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CILIP will launch an independent review of its Carnegie and
Kate Greenaway Medals following the controversy that was sparked by its
2017 Carnegie Medal longlist, which did not include a single black, Asian
or minority ethnic (BAME) writer.
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Biteback is to publish Rude,
the memoir of highly controversial columnist and broadcaster Katie Hopkins.
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David Walliams has racked up the best single week of sales
ever for a (single) World Book Day title, with Blob (HarperCollins Children's) soaring
449% in volume week on week to shift 103,571 copies, according to Nielsen
BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.
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Daunt Books in Chelsea may have to move after more than 10
years if a planning application to redevelop the building block is granted
tonight (8th March).
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Creative Access is to operate as a not-for-profit social
enterprise from this month as a result of having its funding withdrawn from
the government.
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HarperCollins has reopened its graduate scheme and is
targeting more than 100 universities.
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Penguin Random House is publishing British ESA astronaut Tim
Peake’s second book, Ask
an Astronaut, this October.
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Sam Coates, senior rights executive of Vintage Books
at Penguin Random House, has won the £10,000 Deborah Rogers
Foundation Bursary, which going forwards has been renamed the Deborah
Rogers Foundation (DRF) David Miller Bursary.
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Viking is publishing a new John le Carré novel this year, A Legacy of Spies - the
first novel in over 25 years to feature British intelligence
officer George Smiley.
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The European Court of Justice has said VAT on e-books cannot
be reduced to that of printed books.
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A memorial service in celebration of the life of literary
agent David Miller, formerly of Rogers, Coleridge and White, is being held
on the 12th March at the Union Chapel in Islington,
London.
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